Extension of last date for filing Return under Lokpal by Railway Employees

Submission of declarations of assets and liabilities by the Railway Servant under The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 has been extended up to 15.04.2016

Railway Board has issued a letter on Submission of declarations of assets and liabilities by the Railway Servant under The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013. The last date for submission of declaration has been extended up to 15.04.2015.

RBE No. 126/2015

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. E(D&A) 2014 GSl-2

New Delhi, 12/10/2015

The General Manager(P)

All Indian Railways and Production Units etc.

(As per standard list).

Sub: The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 – Submission of declarationsof assets and liabilities by the Railway Servant

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Attention is invited to Railway Board’s letter of even number dated 31.08. 2015, whereby Department of Personnel and Training’s O.M No.11013/7/2014-Estt. (A-III) dated 23.07.2015 was circulated, reiterating the last date for filing the returns under the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Amendment Rules, 2014, as 15.10.2015.

2. In this regard, Department of Personnel and Training has issued O.M. No.407/12/2014-AVD-IV(B) dated 11.10.2015, extending the last date for filing of returns under the aforesaid Rules from 15.10.2015 to 15.04.2016. A copy of the O.M. dated 11.10.2015 aforesaid is enclosed.

3. The Department of Personnel and Training’s d.o. letter dated 30.04.2015, referred to in para 1 of their O.M. dated 11.10.2015 is available at their website ‘persmin.nic.in/DOPT.asp‘under ‘OMs & Orders’ – ‘Vigilance’.

4. Please acknowledge receipt.

DA: As above

(S. Modi)

Dy. Director Estt. (D&A)

Railway Board

No. 407/12/20l4–AVD-IV (B)

Bharat Sarkar/Government of India

Ministry of Personnel. Public Grievances and Pensions

Department of Personnel and Training

North Block, New Delhi

Dated 11th October 2015

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Declaration of Asset and Liabilities by Public Servants under Section 44 of Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 extension of Last date of filing of revised returns for the year 2014 and the returns for the year 2015 by Public Servant.

The undersigned is directed to refer to this Department’s D.O. letter of even number dated 30 April, 2015 regarding the furnishing of information relating to assets and liabilities by public servants under section 44 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 and forwarding therewith copies of the Central Governments’s notifications dated 27th April, 2015 containing

(a) amendment to the Lokpal & Lokayuktas (Removal of Difficulties) Order, 2014, for the purpose of extending the time limit for carrying out necessary changes in the relevant rules relating to different services from “eighteen months” to “twenty one months” from the date on which the Act came into force, i.e., 16th January, 2014; and

(b)the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Amendment Rules, 2014, extending the time limit for filing of revised returns by all public servants from 30th April, 2015 to 15th October 2015.

2. In this regard, the undersigned is directed to convey that the last date for filing of revised returns for the year 2014 (as on 01.08.2014) and the returns for the year 2015 (as on 31.03.2015) by Public servants under the rules indicated in para 1 (b) above has now been further extended from 15th October, 2015 to 15th April, 2016. Formal amendments to the Public Servants (Furnishing of Information and Annual Return of Assets and Liabilities and the Limits for Exemption of Assets in Filing Returns) Rules, 2014 and to the Lokpal Lokayuktas (Removal of Difficulties) Order, 2014 are being notified separately. They will also be uploaded on the website of this Department, i.e.,http://persmin.nic.in/dopt.asp

3. All Ministries/Departments and cadre authorities are requested to kindly issue orders towards ensuring compliance with the revised Rules by all officers and staff in the respective Ministry/Department/ Organisations/PSUs under their control, within the revised time-limit mentioned therein.